Serious, sophisticated cooking in a seriously fun BYOB setting

The booths are made from repurposed church pews and seatbelts, the walls are lined with orange shipping crates, the ceiling is wallpapered with cookbook pages, and you know the craziest thing? When you leave Ruxbin, what you’ll be talking about is the food. Korean-American chef Edward Kim contrasts his 32-seat restaurant’s wacked-out decor with serious, sophisticated cooking. The nightly $65 five-course prix fixe might include chickpea pierogi, chile-braised monkfish, or sweet potatoes with red-eye gravy. It’s food that’s challenging to categorize, except to say that it’s definitively Kim’s.

PRO TIP: If you go here and don’t check out the bathroom, you’re missing half the fun.

THE DETAILS: BYOB; the best wine store in the area is LUSH. Closed Mondays.